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  • arandomthought@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    English is the LAST language that gets to complain about how you pronounce stuff. Ever read an english word that you have’nt heard before? You’re pronouncing it wrong.

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    • AstaKask@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The UK should do a major spelling reform and troll the shit out of the U.S and their then “archaic” English.

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      • KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Ðat wúd bē sō sili, hüever it wúd absolútli rúin ŪK-ŪS komūnikāshon

        Sum myt sā ðat’s a gúd þing ðō

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      • faintwhenfree@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        UK is the worst, US makes sense at least to some degree.

        Gloucestershire - pronounced glostershire Warwick - pronounced warrick And there like hundreds of these weird ones.

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      • undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        The UK accent is actually more “modern” than the US one because the US one is more aligned with the accent imported around the time of colonialism.

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    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      But this is someone complaining about an English word and how it is pronounced. Yes, it comes from another language. That is the entire reason English has a lot of examples like this.

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    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You can work it out through tough thorough thought, though.

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    • Zink@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Seriously!

      We have a third grader, and he’s pretty good at reading. Recently he has been arguing with us about the pronunciation of some new words from his homework.

      The problem is, his arguments are sound! He’s accurately following the rules he learned for sounding out words.

      When this has come up in the past, all I’ve been able to do is acknowledge his argument and explain to him how English has all kinds of weird rules and exceptions, and it’s the kind of thing you remember with experience using the words. Like, there is no new rule to learn, and you don’t have to freak out about remembering all these exceptions. It will just come with time. (Because we all know there’s nothing that kids like more than olds telling them to just wait or give it time, lol)

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    • robocall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      “Tough” should be written as “tuff”

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      • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Image

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      • Brainsploosh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Don’t worry, with the current education policies it will be, soon.

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      • lividweasel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        But tuff is already something else.

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      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        No

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    • rustydrd@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      English is basically three languages stacked on top of each other wearing a trench coat

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    • GreenShimada@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Of all people, Gallagher made the point in the 80s. I think George Carlin also did a set about English words once.

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    • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      English is not the last language that should complain; unfortunately, 54% of the US population has a literacy level below that of a 6th-grade student.

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    • Aljernon@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Even if you have heard an English word before, you’re probably still pronouncing it wrong

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    • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      But the point is that the person complaining isn’t complaining about the French, but about some imagined English dude who picked the pronunciation of rendezvous for fun

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      • arandomthought@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Fair enough. Then it must have been the same dude who decided all the other words with random pronounciations. If you find them, tell them to go fuck themself.

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  • rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The screenshot of a Twitter conversation OP posted, but in higher quality, without the added censorship over the word “fuck,” and without the users’ usernames erased. @notviking posts, “who the fuck decided rendesvous would be pronounced like that” @CathyJoBaker replies, “Poor monolinguals. They can’t seem to understand that other languages besides English exist” @notviking replies, “what the fuck did u just call me” @CarsonElquist replies, “She called you Mongolian”

    Picture of a sad-looking kitten and the text "Every time you post a censored meme to a community labeled “SHITPOST” a kitten is thrown into busy traffic. Cut that bullshit out. Think of the fucking kittens.

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    • VoteNixon2016@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      FTFY

      Picture of a sad-looking kitten and the text "Every time you post a censored meme to a community labeled “S–TPOST” a kitten is thrown into busy traffic. Cut that bulls–t out. Think of the f–king kittens.

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      • SethTaylor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        This guy absolutely loves destroying pussy

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      • Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Now listen here you little kitten murderer 😾

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      • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I love this

        Because god forbid someone reposts an image here from Reddit that had been censored. what a travisty :)

        Strangest fucking hill to die on.

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      • FuCensorship@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        FUUUUUUUUU^UUUUUUCCCKKKK^

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    • Anivia@feddit.org ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Saving the ecosystem one shitpost at a time

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    • Buffy@libretechni.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Hero.

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Wait wait wait wait…I’m pretty good at catching things. You’re saying I could get a drive by kitten adoption? That sounds super fast, efficient, and then I’d have a kitten on my way home from work!

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  • Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • Klear@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    FUCK

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    • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I got chu, fam

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      No thanks, I’m a bit tired right now. Maybe later 🤷

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    • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      We must self censor. To comply with the shitfeed updoots.

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  • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Stop calling me a megalothian!

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    • Tlf@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Megladon?

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      • OldChicoAle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Megatron?

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  • rustydrd@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Us Germans also use this word, but where I come from, we pronounce it RANG-deh-WUH.

    Beautiful.

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    • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      WUH

      Is that a German or English w?

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      • rustydrd@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        German, so like VOO.

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    • io@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      english readers will reads this as räng de wah xD

      rung de voo i would pronounce it ron de voo tho

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  • Aljernon@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    To be fair, usually when a language adopts a new word from other languages, they start spelling it in there own fashion. English is unusual in that they use the original spelling.

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    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      French in particular gets a lot of words with original spellings because it used to be the language of the courts in England.

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    • jpablo68@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      And you also have words like Wednesday…

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      • Hupf@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Worcestershire sauce

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      • smeenz@lemmy.nz ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Woden’s day

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    • this@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Not always, the word skosh(meaning just a little bit or a tiny amount) comes from the Japanese word sukoshi(少し), but that can probably be attributed to the language not generally using romanized letters.

      It’s a very interesting word to me since its one of the very few words that migrated from Japanese to English and isn’t a name of something. The way it came over is also rather interesting, as it was through collaboration between us and Japanese soldiers during the Korean war.

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      • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Hancho (via head honcho) also comes to mind.

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    • Dozzi92@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      My favorite are British English, who can’t stand the French to the point that they say things like filet with a hard T.

      This also reminds me of a recent trip to Colorado, where they do the same thing with Spanish words, anglicizing all of them. Salida (sa-LIE-da) is the first one that’s coming to mind, but I know there are other cities in Colorado that are clearly Spanish words that they’ve just abused.

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    • smeenz@lemmy.nz ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      In “there” own fashion huh ?

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  • X@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Pretty sure it was the Swedish who decided the pronunciation of “rendezvous”. Kinda obvious, really.

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    • ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I blame the Danish

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      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Speaking as a Dane, I accept the blame. In fact it was me. I decided it.

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      • djmikeale@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Hov hov du

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    • pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      They stole the sound from French letters during the Franco-Swedish War.

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    • Digit@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      When some of them had one[1] with with some of the French?

      [1: A rendezvous]

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  • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Not to long ago, I was mourning the loss of the Conversatron 3000. It was a forum site that was nothing but comedy writers, using the medium to tell a flavor of joke and observational humor that could only work on that medium. A lot of it had this formula of “dumb question/observation”, “dumber retort”, “setup”, and finally “witty punchline.” Sometimes, that would just thread on for multiple rounds. Rarely, threads were open to user comments too.

    Now I understand why that hasn’t come back. We don’t need it anymore.

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  • cryptix@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Tap for spoiler

    Fuck

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    • NikkiDimes@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      JESUS, warn me before befowling my eyes so!

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  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Etymology: The word originated from Mr. Rónald Dèus Vu, which the concept is named after. It later simplified to Rón-Dè-Vu

    Synonyms: déjà vu, jamais vu

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  • Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    No no a Mongolian is a personal who lives in the Mongol region north of China. She called you a Mongoose

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    • Qtech@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      No no a Mongoose is a small carnivorous animal. She called you a Monologue.

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    • ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’m pretty sure she called you a mango

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      • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I’m a tangerine.

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      • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        genius.com/Soul-coughing-super-bon-bon-lyrics

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  • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Nauroin ääneen.

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  • BigDiction@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    One of the funniest aspects of Detroit is how bastardized all the French street names are pronounced by locals. Gratiot, Dequindre, Livernois come to mind but there are too many examples.

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  • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I miss 2019

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  • yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    No i think he called her a slut

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  • robocall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Rondayvu

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